Platform Leveling Trick

This is a simple and fast way to level your build platform. I will not promise it is safe, but I have been printing this way for a couple of weeks and have had NO problems.

This also helps insulate your build platform. I don't know how useful that is to other people, but it helps me a lot, as the build platform sometimes cannot reach temperature if I have the fan going and the window open. The big gap beneath the board just lets the air suck the heat right out of the platform. This solves that problem 100%.

It also provides a /little/ cushion in case you /do/ hit your build platform. But I wouldn't count on that to save you.


The picture of the big gear is just there to prove that my platform is, indeed, level. The other pictures are a little misleading, since my camera is lousy and tends to introduce distortions. I had to abort that print partway through when I put my hand in the printer and screwed up the X+Y axis; yeah, that was dumb.

I have not had to adjust it